Lectures of Dr Robert Watt

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Student notes on lectures on the subject of fevers and inflammatory fevers, 1812.

Administrative / Biographical History

Dr Robert Watt, b. 1774 was the compiler of the Bibliotheca Britannica and President of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons 1814-1816. He was founding President of the Glasgow Medical Society in 1814. He began lecturing from his house in Queen Street, Glasgow in 1811 on the Theory and Practice of Medicine. The notes cover the subject of fevers and inflammatory fevers. The writer of the notes is unknown.

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RCPSG 1/20/4/7 Manuscript draft of Treatise on Chincough by Robert Watt MD, c.1813